The Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) in Paris offers a 20-month (renewable) contract to a fishery scientist with strong skills in modelling of fish stocks. This position supports the development of robust assessment methods and harvest strategies for toothfish fisheries in the Southern Ocean. He/she will contribute to fisheries management outcomes under the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) and research projects on the Southern Ocean ecosystem led by the MNHN.

Essential requirements are:
1) the completion of a PhD, Master or engineer degree in relevant discipline, such as fishery science, statistics, population dynamics, resource modelling,
2) competence in the use of databases and statistical software packages such as R,
3) effective oral and written communication of research results and their implications for scientists, industry stakeholders, government and the public, and
4) Candidates must be fluent in French, for more information, see the job description (in french here: www.mnhn.fr/fr/recrutement/emplois-stages).

Applications must be submitted by email by sending a letter of motivation with justification of skills for the position and a detailed Curriculum Vitae, to Prof. Guy Duhamel (guy.duhamel) and Patrice Pruvost (patrice.pruvost) before the 30th of June 2018.

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Using Management Strategy Evaluation to understand the consequences of mismatch between Sablefish stock structure and the scale of assessment and management across the northeast Pacific.

Natural Resources Canada Postdoctoral Research Program

POST-DOCTORAL POSITION

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to lead a research project on the population ecology and management of Sablefish. The Principal Investigators on the project are Drs. Brendan Connors (DFO Institute of Ocean Sciences), and Sean Cox (Simon Fraser University); key collaborators include Drs. Melissa Haltuch (NOAA NW Fisheries Science Center), and Dana Hanselman (NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center), as well as Carrie Holt and Sean Anderson (DFO Pacific Biological Station).

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Sablefish are a long-lived and commercially-valuable deep-water species that range from Southern California to the Bering Sea. Sablefish are assessed and managed at regional scales (i.e., Alaska, British Columbia and the US West Coast) but are a highly mobile straddling stock with little genetic evidence of population structure across these management regions. The conservation and fishery consequences of this mismatch between Sablefish stock structure and the scale of assessment and management are unknown. The objective of this project is to work collaboratively with an international team of Sablefish scientists to conduct a Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) that is based on Sablefish population dynamics and stock structure across their range. We will use the MSE to understand the potential consequences of the mismatch between Sablefish stock structure and management by simulation testing current, and potential future, management procedures (data collection scheme, stock assessment method, harvest policy rules) to quantify their performance against a range of conservation and fishery objectives. The outcomes of the proposed work will provide scientific advice to help advance international fisheries governance by improving our understanding of Sablefish population dynamics and their management implications over the full range of their distribution.

While the focus of the position is on the above research, the position will afford ample opportunity for motivated individuals to lead and/or contribute to other research on groundfish population ecology and management.

ESSENTIAL ASSET QUALIFICATIONS

Applicants must have completed a PhD in fisheries science or a related discipline within the past three years, and have demonstrated expertise in spatial population ecology and advanced statistical and simulation modelling. Successful candidates will be self-motivated and have a proven track record of publishing their research in peer-reviewed journals. The position is available for candidates of all nationalities but those who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada must satisfy Canadian immigration requirements.

LOCATION OF TENURE FLEXIBLE: Pacific Biological Station (PBS), Nanaimo, BC; Institute of Ocean Sciences (IOS), Sidney, BC; or School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC. The west coast of Canada, is well known for its rainforests, beaches, and mountains. It is a destination for kayaking, hiking, surfing, skiing, diving, biking and camping.

POSITION DETAILS AND HOW TO APPLY

This fellowship is available to start September 1, 2018 and will be completed by January 1, 2021 with a salary of $65,000 CAD per annum plus travel support. The Canadian Government Postdoctoral Research Program is administered by Natural Resources Canada (NRC). More details about the program can be found at: https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/careers/17880.

Short-listed applicants will be invited to develop a full application through the NRC system. CVs will be accepted until the position is filled.

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External Conferences and Seminars

The upcoming SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Planet Earth will be held from September 13-15, 2018 in Philadelphia, PA. All of the relevant information on the conference can be found at the URL below, including deadlines for submissions, travel fund applications, pre-registration, and hotel reservations:

The 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE) will take place in Gothenburg from June 25 to June 29, 2018.

After Venice (1998), Monterey (2002), Kyoto (2006), Montréal (2010) and Istanbul (2014), the profession will convene on the beautiful Swedish west coast. WCERE 2018 is hosted by the Department of Economics at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. The conference is jointly organized by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE), the East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAAERE) and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE).

There will be two types of pre-organized sessions at WCERE 2018 for which proposals are now invited.

(1) THEMATIC SESSIONS aim to advance theory and methods in the field of environmental and resource economics. They normally consist of three or four papers connected by a unifying theme (subject or method). The theme is expected to be of interest to a relatively broad audience of environmental and resource economists. The individual papers are expected to be of very high quality, both with respect to scientific content and presentation. The Scientific Committee will select a limited number of proposed Thematic Sessions based on scientific quality and originality. The thematic sessions will run in parallel in much the same way as regular parallel sessions.

(2) POLICY SESSIONS aim to advance the application of environmental and resource economics in policy-making and to provide a forum of exchange between policy-makers and academics. Sessions are expected to be of interest to a broad audience of research economists. They will typically be formatted as formal presentations or as roundtable discussions. Papers are not required. The Scientific Committee will select a limited number of proposed Policy Sessions based on significance and originality. The Policy sessions will also run in parallel in much the same way as regular parallel sessions.

Proposal, guidelines and rules

(1) THEMATIC SESSION: To propose a Thematic Session, the Organizer(s) should send an email entitled “Thematic Session” to programme_wcere2018 with the following information:

Name(s) of the Thematic Session’s Organizer(s).

Proposed title of the Thematic Session.

A short description of the theme, including a motivation and an explanation how the three papers individually and jointly bear on the theme.

Title, author names, and at least a 100-word abstract for EACH of the three papers included in the Session. Full papers are also encouraged.

Thematic Session Organizer(s) must commit to attend WCERE 2018 and to chair the specific Thematic Session.

Thematic Session Organizer(s) are responsible for ensuring that the Session contributors are aware of and follow the rules below.

There are no dedicated financial resources to support Thematic Sessions. All nominated participants in a Thematic Session have to pay the WCERE conference registration fees. No discount on the registration fees can be provided.

All papers in the Session must be submitted and participants registered by May 8, 2018.

(2) POLICY SESSION: To propose a policy session, the Organizer(s) should send an email entitled "Policy Session" to programme_wcere2018 with the following information:

Name(s) of the Policy Session’s Organizer(s).

Proposed title of the Policy Session.

A short description of the theme and its policy relevance to environmental or natural resource economists.

Titles, speaker names, brief bios, and a brief description of the speaker’s expertise and expected contribution to the session.

Any other documentation such as background papers that the Organizer wishes to refer to as fundamental for the Session.

Policy Session Organizer(s) must commit to attend WCERE 2018 and to chair their Session (or appoint a person who does this in their place).

Policy Session Organizer(s) are responsible for ensuring that the Session contributors are aware of and follow the rules below.

There are no dedicated financial resources to support Policy Sessions. However, policy-makers contributing to a Policy Session qualify for free access to WCERE 2018 on the day of their session. No further access or discounts on registration fees can be provided.

The deadline for the submission of proposals is 31st January 2018.
Notification of the decision by the Scientific Committee is scheduled for 28 Feb 2018.

Sfécologie2016, the 2016 International Conference of the French Ecological Society
in Marseille (France), October 24-28, 2016

The Mediterranean Institute of marine and terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE, Aix Marseille Université – CNRS – IRD – Université Avignon) is the local organizer.
We expect this event to be the most significant event in 2016 for the ecological sciences in the French-speaking world – with about 1000 academics, students and stakeholders expected to meet in the splendid Pharo Congress Center for exchange and discussions around the latest advances in basic and applied ecological sciences.
Note that the conference will be held in English.
You can find on our website the last news about this event with e.g. the lists of keynote speakers and symposia.
Our call for abstracts is now open and will remain so until April 20.
Looking forward to see you in Marseille in October!
Best wishes,
Wolfgang Cramer

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Call for nomination to Lamberson Award 2018The Rollie Lamberson Award celebrates the contribution of Professor Rollie Lamberson to the field of natural resource modeling and the growth of the Resource Modeling Association by recognizing each year the most outstanding paper in natural resource modeling in the previous two years. See http://resourcemodeling.org/lamberson/ or below for more details.

Only current RMA members are eligible for the award.

All papers published in Natural Resource Modeling during the previous two calendar years (namely 2016-2017) will be considered automatically provided at least one of the authors is a current member.

Papers published in other journals may be nominated for consideration provided at least one of the co-authors is a current member. To be considered, the submission must comprise:

an electronic version of the paper in English,

a nominating letter specifying why the paper is deserving of the Rollie Lamberson Award. Criteria below.

Send your nominations to <luc.doyen or to RMA contact from the website. The submission for the award 2018 will be closed on February 14, 2018.

The Lamberson prize will be delivered to the winners during the 2018 RMA conference to be held in Guangzhou, China on June 9-13, 2018.

We are recruiting a PhD student with full funding that will look at how assessments of socio-ecological vulnerability (or other frameworks linking humans and nature to foster sustainability) can be used to support marine spatial planning (MSP) and marine conservation planning processes. The project will aim at developing/expan ding an approach for assessing social-ecological vulnerability and test it in different contexts, including for instance French Polynesian islands, Canada’s West and East coasts and the Mediterranean Sea.

The ideal candidate will have a Masters’ in geography, ecology, environmental sciences/studies or related disciplines with willingness to work at the interfaces with other disciplines. Strong academic standing, good communication skills in English and good work ethics are also required. While not required, academic or work experience in marine conservation and knowledge of French will be an asset. The student should ideally start in January 2018 and will be co-supervised by Drs Rodolphe Devillers (Memorial University, NL, Canada) and Joachim Claudet (CNRS, CRIOBE, France). The successful candidate will be registered at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and located at the Marine Geomatics Lab (www.marinegis.com) but may have to spend up to a year in the CRIOBE Lab (www.criobe.pf) in France or in French oversea territories. Memorial University is one of the largest Universities in Eastern Canada, having a strong focus on marine sciences, and also has some of the lowest tuitions in North America.

Before applying formally to the university, candidates should email Dr Devillers (joachim.claudet) before the end of October 2017, providing a short statement of interest, a CV mentioning three people that could provide references, and unofficial copies of university transcripts. Applications will be reviewed as they come and the position will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate is found.